I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 721

Chapter 179 Frost and Starry Sky
The light of the flame dispels the thick darkness.
The knight in the darkness, his slender arms gently holding the black sword edge, stood tall and straight, with an extraordinary bearing, as if stepping out of legends, representing the demeanor and elegance of a knight.
Even in Verafia’s eyes, the other party’s image perfectly fit the appearance of a perfect knight.
But her eyes trembled, covered with disbelief:
“Alcorea… How can it be you?”
Alcorea… In Verafia’s memory, it was a name that was once known as the Flower of Knights, elegant and graceful.
Even after the times of Peka and Lichen, during the Demon Race War, this name, as the King of Peka’s Royal White Sword, and even after becoming the leader, she had disagreements with him, but she had never doubted his character.
Just and compassionate, honorable and brave.
In fact, in Verafia’s eyes at the time, the one who best represented the morals of a knight was not Lancaster, who was a “Paladin,” but this knight named “Alcorea.”
“Alcorea… This name has not been mentioned by anyone for a long time. I thought everyone would have forgotten it.”
With a hint of melancholy, the knight slowly walked out of the darkness.
He wore black armor, but it was not like the Black Swords under Lancaster, which relied on strange alchemical armor to contain and borrow the power of the Star Gods.
The power of the starry sky permeated the knight’s limbs and bones, and fragments of alien gods merged with him, as if the flowing darkness was the star god walking among the living.
“However, this name was uttered by you. Could it be that you, as a flame god, know me…”
Alcorea looked at the fluttering hem of the exquisite golden-haired girl’s skirt, and her childlike, flawless, yet incredulous face, illuminated by the interplay of dark starlight and flame.
A fluctuation of emotion suddenly flashed in his eyes, and the knight shook his head slightly: “Yes, you also harbor hatred towards the King, even to the point of personally offending him to seek revenge. If that’s the case…”
But Verafia seemed not to hear him.
She lightly bit her pearly white teeth, her slender jade hands tightly grasping the scepter beneath the dark long sword.
Her golden eyes gazed intently at the other party’s face.
Why… shouldn’t you have died? In the words of that Black Royal Guard, you died for Peka, for the King in the war, and he even admired your will…
Even if this is fake, you were persecuted by Lancaster, even if you are not dead at all, but just living incognito… but why would you fall to this?
“Lot… No, Goddess, are you questioning me?”
As if seeing the girl’s gaze, the ripples that had just emerged returned to calm in the knight’s heart, and he spoke.
“After the Demon Race War, Lancaster married Princess Fia, and later became King. However, I still remained loyal to him…”
“In these decades, Lancaster’s character, his actions, including… what he did to you, naturally could not have gone unnoticed, but I still remained loyal to him. Until twenty years ago.”
Verafia did not answer. The other party recognized her identity, but had already called her a goddess… She merely looked at this unfamiliar old acquaintance, waiting for the next words.
“Lancaster is certainly not as bright and righteous as he claimed. Countless shadows of conspiracy and sin spread behind him. However, for Peka, and even for all humanity and the entire continent, he would undoubtedly be a perfect and great king.”
The knight’s low voice came unhurriedly.
Verafia slightly raised her head. She had never denied such an evaluation of Lancaster.
In fact, if she were the real Verafia, not the obsession of Lothosel manifested… she might even have admired this powerful and ambitious King of Sacred Light.
However, she didn’t want to talk about this dead king at all right now. She slightly lifted her pure white chin: “Then, twenty years ago?”
“Twenty years ago, when three dark star gods descended, darkness shrouded all of Lichen… In that war, Lancaster killed one of them, extracted its power, and turned the Royal White Sword into the Black Sword, making it his sharp blade to guard the kingdom’s dark night for him.”
“As for me, Alcorea, I also fell before the entire world twenty years ago.”
Alcorea simply narrated, showing no emotional fluctuations, as if it had nothing to do with him.
“However, I do not hate the King. If he had not existed, at least twenty years ago, all of Lichen and even Peka would have turned into fertile land for the dark starry sky.”
“Then why did you also fall into the power of the Star God?”
Verafia’s brilliant and gorgeous golden eyes reflected the dark starry sky behind the knight. She tilted her face, her palm tightly grasping the Mistetinn’s Staff, as if suppressing the anger in her heart with all her might.
Alcorea was silent for a moment. After a moment, he raised his face again, and the dark starry sky spread once more: “Why… this, even you, as a god, cannot understand.”
“Then what do you know, of the starry sky, or the Frost Calamity?”
Unable to bear it, without even caring about her image, Verafia raised her face and shouted. Anger rose in her chest, and her jade hand gripped the Mistetinn’s Staff, smashing it heavily against the dark sword edge in the knight’s hand.
Boom—!!
The impact caused by the shattering of laws was even greater than the scene of Kasrai and the Frost God’s avatar confronting each other in Vinash City.
The sky was torn apart, the stagnant space-time shattered with a roar, and streaks of broken laws arbitrarily slashed through the spreading darkness, slamming into the girl. She spat out a mouthful of golden light-interspersed blood, and her figure crashed through the boundaries of the starry sky, being thrown heavily.
“Young Lady!”
The dark starry sky was torn apart, and the stars and moon in the night sky could be seen again, already showing a crisp frostiness. In the outside world, it was only a moment of stagnation. Igter caught her.
“Mm, I’m fine…”
Verafia gently took the hand extended by the boy and said with difficulty.
For Verafia, even with a goddess’s body, it was difficult to withstand the backlash of the shattered laws and the impact of the dark starry sky without divine power.
—However, Alcorea did not attack her. He even actively restrained some of his power.
Leaning on Igter’s arm, Verafia stood up with some difficulty, her golden gaze looking at the starlight and ice-blue frost and snow scattered beside her.
However, without using laws to attack the starry sky, she, without divine power, absolutely could not break through that starry sky…
Wait.
Her gaze shrank heavily, and then she looked up in horror.
Alcorea still held the dark sword and walked towards her:
“Starry sky and Frost Calamity… what you said is indeed correct. Twenty years ago, the Star God, who represented destruction, died under the Sacred Sword. At the same time, twenty years ago, the God of Frost Calamity awakened on this continent, causing calamity to devour the earth.”
Behind the knight, the dark starry sky continued to spread, like a withered world, destruction, and deathly stillness surging endlessly, yet layers of frost-white ice crystals continuously condensed.